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Stealth Puts Koesterer on Hold to Coach at Johns Hopkins

from press release

EVERETT, Wash. – The Washington Stealth
announced today that third-year transition player and face-off
specialist Jamison Koesterer has been placed on the team's hold out
list due to conflicts in his schedule as an assistant coach of the
men's lacrosse team at Johns Hopkins University. Defenseman Bob
Snider has been activated from the practice roster in Koesterer's
absence, pending league approval.

Koesterer is ranked second in the NLL with 86 face-off wins and
has 31 loose balls in five games. He has won over 60 percent of the
draws he's taken this season. In just two seasons with the Stealth,
Koesterer ranks third on the Stealth's all-time face-off wins list
with 351. He went 265 for 446 (59%) from the face-off circle and
collected 101 loose balls a year ago.

In the offseason, Koesterer, who was residing in Seattle as the
Director of Operations for Walax.com, moved back east to take a
position as an assistant coach at his alma mater, Johns Hopkins
University. Koesterer played for Johns Hopkins for four seasons,
winning the NCAA Division I Championship in 2005 and 2007.

"Jamison has been a tremendously valuable asset to the Stealth
for the past year and a half distinguishing himself as one of the
top faceoff specialists in the NLL," said Stealth general manager
Doug Locker. "He is a terrific leader a skilled competitor and a
tremendous role model for lacrosse players here in the Northwest.
We wish him well as he begins his coaching career and hope that he
will be able to rejoin the team at some point later in the
season."

Snider moves to the active roster after spending the first five
games of the season on the Stealth's practice squad. He was
acquired in the offseason in a trade with the Philadelphia Wings,
the team with which he spent his rookie season in 2010. In ten
games with the Wings, Snider tallied four assists and 40 loose
balls and went 15-for-28 (53%) as the team's secondary face-off
man.

"Our staff and players have full confidence that Bob will come
in and perform at a high level," said Locker. "He's been
outstanding in practice and we don't think the face-off team will
miss a beat out on the floor come game time."

The change in the Stealth roster will be effective for this
weekend's game against the Colorado Mammoth. The game is scheduled
to face-off at 6:00pm PST at the Pepsi Center in Denver, Colo., and
can be seen live on the NLL Network at NLL.com.